Job Description:

Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer (Electrical Bias)
📍 St Austell, Cornwall
💰 Up to £50,000
🕒 Day Shift

We are currently recruiting for a Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer (Electrical Bias) to join a well-established food manufacturing business based in St Austell. This is a great opportunity for an engineer with strong Multivac packaging machinery experience to join a stable team working day shifts, supporting the reliability and performance of key production equipment.

As a Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer, you will be responsible for maintaining production equipment through both planned preventative maintenance and reactive repairs, ensuring minimal downtime and supporting continuous improvement across the site.

• Carry out planned preventative maintenance (PPM) and reactive maintenance on production equipment.

• Provide specialist technical support for Multivac packaging machinery, ensuring optimal performance and minimal downtime.

• Diagnose faults quickly and carry out effective repairs to restore production operations.

• Maintain and support industrial refrigeration systems, including ammonia plant equipment where required.

• Ensure machinery operates safely and efficiently to meet production and quality standards.

• Support the installation, commissioning, and testing of new equipment and machinery.

• Maintain and repair mechanical, electrical, and pneumatic systems across production lines.

• NVQ Level 3 / HNC / HND in Mechanical, Electrical, or Multi-Skilled Engineering (or equivalent).

• Essential: Proven experience maintaining and repairing Multivac packaging machinery.

• Experience within FMCG or food manufacturing environments.

• Knowledge of ammonia refrigeration systems or industrial refrigeration.

• Experience with production machinery, conveyors, packaging equipment, and automated systems.

• Strong fault-finding and diagnostic skills across mechanical and electrical systems.

• Salary up to £50,000

• Day shift role offering improved work-life balance

• Opportunity to work within a fast-paced FMCG manufacturing environment

• Involvement in equipment improvements and engineering projects
  
  

📩 Interested? Apply now or contact us for a confidential discussion.